Michael Blakey

Michael Blakey, born in London, England, studied music in Madrid and Berlin. Coming to the United States with a vast array of musical experience as an accomplished drummer, hit making music producer and music promoter, Blakey made his life long passion for the entertainment industry his business. He became the head of Music Production at the famous Hansa Tonstudio in West Berlin and in house session drummer. Over his career, he has successfully created three record labels as well as being involved with numerous gold and platinum selling records. In 1999, Blakey co-founded 2KSounds and was one of the first to integrate the Internet into daily operations for the successful distribution of music. Soon after going public in early 2002, 2KSounds entered into a joint venture with Virgin Records and Mr. Blakey was appointed the President of the Record Division. Throughout his career Blakey prod…